Released: March 22, 2011
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages: 359
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by: Carey
Synopsis: Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (a.k.a. witches, shape-shifters, and faeries). But then she discovered the family secret, and the fact that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wiping Prodigium off the face of the earth.
Turns out, Sophie's a demon, one of only two in the world-the other being her father. What's worse, she has powers that threaten the lives of everyone she loves. Which is precisely why Sophie decides she must go to London for the Removal, a dangerous procedure that will either destroy her powers for good-or kill her.
But once Sophie arrives, she makes a shocking discovery. Her new housemates? They're demons too. Meaning, someone is raising demons in secret, with creepy plans to use their powers, and probably not for good. Meanwhile, The Eye is set on hunting Sophie down, and they're using Archer to do it. But it's not like she has feelings for him anymore. Does she?
Review:
This book made me really happy. I loved pretty much everything about this book. It reminded me of this dramatic, romantic movie. I could so see this being a movie! Oh, how fabulous would that be?
So let's get to it. Demonglass picks up about six months after Hex Hall ends, which ended with Archer Cross, her crush whom she had just made-out with, is a demon hunter, and Sophie had just been told that she was a demon. And she had just seen her demon-ghost great-grandmother thing kill her best frenemy. So yeah... things kind of suck in the Sophie Mercer world.
So it's May at Hex Hall, and her defense class is working on how to escape being thrown into a pond by Cal, who is this healing warlock who's only a year older than her and works at Hex Hall. Oh, and he's also her betrothed. To be honest, I never liked Sophie and Archer together, so I shipped them automatically. Cal is so stoic and he has this half smile thing going on, so it made me like the idea of them together. I figured that when her father, who's head of the council, wants them to go to Council Headquarters in London (her, Cal, and her best friend Jenna, a vampire), I figured that there would be a lot of heated Cal and Sophie time. But sadly, there wasn't.
NO. Instead she goes out with Jenna and the other two random demons Nick and Daisy and then The Eye (demon hunters) find out that Sophie is out and go hunting for her and Archer is there. Ugh. If only she stayed away from him like her father, and everyone else, told her to. Although it was a good thing that she saw Archer because she found out about some sketchy stuff going on at Hex Hall.
The only reason I didn't like it as much as I thought I would is because I felt like it was sort of slow. Like, everything was so necessary and I loved learning more about the Prodigium and her learning and what was going on at Hex Hall and all, but I just wanted some romance I guess, or something really big to happen. But when it finally happened, I loved every minute of it.
Demonglass ends with a bigger cliffhanger than Hex Hall did. But that doesn't matter, since I have the third and final book in the trilogy, Spell Bound, over on my shelf. I'm excited to see who she ends up with, where Jenna is (oh, yeah, she went missing), who stayed alive, and how the war is going on (and The Eye started a war at Council Headquarters, too). I just can't wait whatsoever.
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